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Using focus points from the novel “Native Son”, this 4 page paper argues that the death is just and its use is not racially prejudiced. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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justice. The black protagonist "Bigger" has murdered not once but twice. His first victim was the daughter of his rich white employer and his second was his own
girlfriend. Bigger is facing the death penalty for his wrongs. Wright, however, wants to place the blame for Biggers actions on societys shoulders. That seems to be
a common tendency in todays society, to place the blame for black crime on society and not on blacks themselves (Rothenberg 28). The thesis that will be argued in
this paper, however, is that blacks are more commonly facing the the criminal justice system because it is the blacks that are committing the crimes!
In "Native Son" Bigger is presented as just a poor black guy that is so oppressed by society that he forgets what is right and what
is wrong. Unfortunately, this view seems to predominate not only fiction like "Native Son" but contemporary society! Marger (7), for example, notes that those that live in capitalistic
industrial societies develop sometimes negative cultural characteristics such as a propensity for single parent (or more specifically mother centered) homes. Bigger, of course, is the product of such a
home. Marger (4), however, contends that such characteristics "have produced survival strategies enabling the poor to adapt to conditions of poverty but making it difficult for them to escape
their situation". In "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice", for example, Reiman (37) asserts a definitive anti-poor bias in arrest, conviction,
and sentencing practices. It is important to emphasize that not being able to escape a deplorable situation is not a justifiable
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